Skeleton of dinosaur that modeled for monsters from Jurassic Park auctioned for $12.4 million

The skeleton of a dinosaur that served as a model for the bloodthirsty Velociraptors from the movie Jurassic Park was sold at auction in New York on Thursday evening for $12.4 million (11.9 million euros). The 110-million-year-old fossil thus yielded more than twice as much as expected, according to auction house Christie’s.

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